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A Companion to W. V. O. Quine

ISBN: 978-1-118-60799-2

December 2013

Wiley-Blackwell

600 pages

Description

This Companion brings together a team of leading figures in contemporary philosophy to provide an in-depth exposition and analysis of Quine’s extensive influence across philosophy’s many subfields, highlighting the breadth of his work, and revealing his continued significance today.

  • Provides an in-depth account and analysis of W.V.O. Quine’s contribution to American Philosophy, and his position as one of the late twentieth-century’s most influential analytic philosophers
  • Brings together newly-commissioned essays by leading figures within contemporary philosophy
  • Covers Quine’s work across philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, ontology and metaphysics, epistemology, and more
  • Explores his work in relation to the origins of analytic philosophy in America, and to the history of philosophy more broadly
  • Highlights the breadth of Quine’s work across the discipline, and demonstrates the continuing influence of his work within the philosophical community
About the Author

Gilbert Harman is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He has written broadly about W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, and much of his research shows Quine’s influence, including Thought (1973), Change in View (1986) and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind (1999). He is also editor of Semantics of Natural Language (with Donald Davidson, 1970) and The Logic of Grammar (1975). 

Ernie Lepore is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is currently Acting Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, and a professor at Rutgers University. He is the co-author with Herman Cappelen of Insensitive Semantics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004) and Language Turned on Itself (2007). He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (with Barry C. Smith, 2006) and general editor of the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.